CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE

WEALTH OF NATIONS.

INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK

Page I

BOOKI.

OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRO-

DUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE

ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS

NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFE-

RENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE

6

CHAP. I.

Of the Divifion of Labour

ibid.

CHAP. II.

Of the Principle which gives Occafion to the

Divifion of Labour

19

CHAP. III,

7 That the Divifion of Labour is limited by the

Extent of the Market

26

CHAP. IV.

Of the Origin and Ufe of Money

CHAP. V.

Of the real and nominal Price of Commodities, or

of their Price in Labour, and their Price in

Money

43

CHAP. VI.

Of the component Parts of the Price of Commo-

dities

70

CHAP. VII.

Of the natural and market Price of Commo-

dities

82

CHAP. VIII.

Of the Wages of Labour

CHAP. IX.

Of the Profits of Stock

PARTI.
affords Rent

Page 33

Of the Rent of Land

CHAP. X.

Of Wages and Profit in the different Employ-

ments of Labour and Stock

151

CHAP. XI.

4

PART I. Inequalities arising from the Nature of the

Employments themselves

152

PART II. Inequalities occafioned by the Policy of

Europe

183

Of the Produce of Land which always

96

133

"

223

227

PART

Page 252

PART II. Of the Produce of Land which fometimes

does, and fometimes does not, afford Rent

PART III. Of the Variations in the Proportion be-

tween the respective Values of that Sort of Produce

which always affords Rent, and of that which fome-

times does and fometimes does not afford Rent

Digreffion concerning the Variations in the Value of Silver

during the Courfe of the Four laft Centuries:

Firft Period

273

Second Period

Third Period

Variations in the Proportions between the respective

Values of Gold and Silver

Grounds of the Sufpicion that the Value of Silver

ftill continues to decrease

Different Effects of the Progress of Improvement

upon the real Price of three different Sorts of rude

Produce

First Sort

Second Sort

Third Sort

Conclufion of the Digreffion concerning the Variations

in the Value of Silver

Effects of the Progress of Improvement upon the real

Price of Manufactures

Conclufion of the Chapter

276

299

301

330

338

339

340

343

359

373

384

393

viii

INTRODUCTION

BOOK II.

OF THE NATURE, ACCUMULATION, AND EMPLOY-

MENT OF STOCK.

CHAP. II.

Of Money confidered as a particular Branch

of the general Stock of the Society, or of

the Expence of maintaining the National

Capital

423

ADVERTISEMENT

TO

THE THIRD EDITION.

THE

HE First Edition of the following Work was printed in the end of the year 1775, and in the beginning of the year 1776. Through the greater part of the Book, therefore, whenever the prefent ftate of things is mentioned, it is to be understood of the state they were in, either about that time, or at fome earlier period, during the time I was employed in writing the Book. To the Third Edition, however, I have made feveral additions, particularly to the chapter upon Drawbacks, and to that upon Bounties; likewife a new chapter entitled, The Conclufion of the Mercantile Syftem; and a new article to the chapter upon the expences of the Sovereign. In all these additions, the prefent flate of things means always the ftate in which they were during the year 1783 and the beginning of the year 1784.